RELIGIOUS PERFORMANCES.

“It is to laugh” to “see the heathen rage and devise a vain thing.”  No hierarchy of earth, no multitudinous howl of ignorance and stupidity that “having eyes that see not; and having ears that hear not” can block the wheels of progress.  It has worked in the past, “quite some,” routing out tortured souls and bodies by the millions, sending them flying off from this planet which was, and is their real home, turning rack and screw, and setting baleful fires on tender flesh, threatening further eternal hell fires; all for what?  Why, to prove that “tweedle dee,” is greater than “tweedle dum,” and this is the record of religion at the hands of the theologians and the priests!  This is the story of accepted orthodox religion.  Why, then, have a religion?  Why not try the altruism taught by the great Master in a system of ethics that can never be superseded by one higher and more truth-inspiring, better adapted to the perfect unfoldment of the human race?

No more of these awful persecutions, and massacres, and killings for the “glory of God;” for the amusement of devils, really!  Practical common sense, and reason will surely be, in time, the salvation of this world.

OF TEACHERS.

The wisest teacher is the one who shows the gradual processes of unfoldment and growth in the mind and body, and in all the outworkings of the material world.  He who breaks down arbitrary distinctions in every realm of life does the most toward liberating and enlightening the world.  We are from infancy so accustomed to petty distinctions which have originated in ignorance, and from long use have been formulated into laws, fixed and binding, that were some person clear-sighted enough to the truth to show us our invisible bonds, and how to sever them with the scalpel of common sense, and reason, we would be amazed at our great freedom, and astonished to see the light coming through thousands of loopholes and windows of the mind which are now closed by an accumulation of dust and cobwebs of the petty superstitions of ages.

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Millions of beings are born so starved that no after nourishing can make up for it.

WISE USE OF MONEY.

The money that has been spent in building up blasphemous theologies would have rid the whole world of poverty, and ignorance, if it had been beneficently employed with the kind intention of doing the peoples of the earth good, in every way, instead of trying to fix upon them damnation now, and also arrange for it in their life hereafter.

Here and there, scattered along the way, are souls who have escaped the “drag-net” of theology, but there are at this present moment great spirits that, even after having passed through death’s dark crucible, are haunted by damning fears of bad results possible from too much freedom.  The trail of the serpent is felt by them still.